More prefer BITSAT to IITJEE

Updated on: Thursday, May 17, 2012

The general feeling is that the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is more competitive than BITSAT. But it tells a different story if one looks into the details of the numbers, which cannot lie.

About 68 students were estimated to compete for a single seat in this year's BITSAT, the online test for admission into degree courses at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani compared to 54 students contesting for an IIT seat.

Going further it is seen that in the case of BITSAT, the number of applications received was 1.36 lakh for 2,000 seats in the institute's campuses in Pilani, Hyderabad and Goa while 5.2 lakh students took the IIT-JEE on April 8 to be eligible for 9,600 seats in the 15 IITs.

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